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SubjectRe: [RFC][CFLART] ipmi procfs bogosity
Andrew Morton wrote:

>Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:
>
>
>>Indeed, this function is badly written. In rewriting, I couldn't find a
>> nice function for reading integers from userspace, and the proc_dointvec
>> stuff didn't seem terribly suitable.
>>
>>
>
>We write numbers into profs files all the time. Is there something
>different about the IPMI requirement which makes the approach used by, say,
>dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler() inappropriate?
>
>
Ok, that's probably better, and this probably belongs in
/proc/sys/dev/ipmi. This is new enough that it doesn't matter, I don't
think any one is using it yet.

Patch is attached.

-Corey
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